To celebrate Vikings Live, we have replaced our Roman alphabet with the runic alphabet used by the Vikings, the Scandinavian ‘Younger Futhark’. The ‘Younger Futhark’ has only 16 letters, so we have used some of the runic letters more than once or combined two runes for one Roman letter.

Lloyd de Beer

Project Curator: Late Medieval Europe

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Lloyd de Beer is jointly responsible for the
late medieval collections (alongside lead curator Naomi
Speakman).

His academic background is in English art and literature of the
foureenth and fifteenth centuries, and he is currently working on
the museum’s collection of alabaster sculptures, pilgrim badges and
seal matrices. He has a particular interest in medieval
architecture, and the role it plays in framing the visual reception
of objects and ritual. He is of course happy to answer enquiries
relating to any and all aspects of the collection.

Prior to joining the department Lloyd held a curatorial
fellowship at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. In 2013 he will
begin his PhD, in collaboration with the University of East Anglia,
studying the museum’s collection of English alabaster carvings from
the later Middle Ages.